What is the most consecutive racks of 9 ball ever run?

Didn't Kaci blank Alex in 10 Ball something like 10-0 or 11-0 ?? Only shot Alex got was the lag....
 
HNTFSH said:
Play with a banger, chaos, slop creator and you probably won't run more than 3.
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Wouldn't you still run as many as you could, regardless of whether you are playing a banger or Efren Reyes? Once you have the table they are glued to the seat and can't create any chaos at all. What does the opponent have to do with anything?
 
Who really knows?? No way of accurately defining this. I do know that D. Matlock has run over twenty more than once on a bar-box but even some of those may have included conceded games.
 
DieselPete said:
Wouldn't you still run as many as you could, regardless of whether you are playing a banger or Efren Reyes? Once you have the table they are glued to the seat and can't create any chaos at all. What does the opponent have to do with anything?
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You're correct depending on the rules you're playing under.
 
Bob Jewett said:
They were playing to 8. Here's the condensed version -- under 6 minutes for the whole thing.

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This is exactly what easy-e was talking about on post #54.
poolhustler asked in post 62 if Kaci blanked Alex 10-0 or 11-0,
Bob Jewett corrected him that is was a race to 8.
Stories and memories can certainly grow with time.
 
DieselPete said:
A few of the ten balls were conceded in that match, so clearly it doesn't count.
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A common tournament rule around here is that if you concede a ball, you lose the next rack as well. That cuts down on concessions. I think I've seen someone concede the ball that put his opponent on the hill. Oops.
 
Given that professional players are thought to be at least 50% to break and run out then mathematically it should be fairly easy to see that streaks are rare. And certainly the statisticians among us could tell us how rare.

Another question that may have already been asked is should we count multiple break and runs as packs when they happen in alternate break formats? I say yes.
 
That break and run percent in some of these race to 100 challenge matches is around 45%, so the odds on a five pack are about 2%.
 
straightline said:
Don't know if you're kidding. I do believe this notion. Continuity is everything.
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I was half kidding.

It was a great run and I don’t intend to take anything away from it. But if we said that a run is the videotaped, proven record, there certainly could not be even one conceded ball.

Someone runs 17 racks with a conceded ball in rack 12... I’d say “Congratulations on your eleven rack run.”

But coming from a golf background, I see sets like match play golf in which conceding putts is a sign of respect. Someone concedes a nine ball in a match? Good for them. But if you accept the conceded ball you sacrifice a long run record.
 
JB Cases said:
Given that professional players are thought to be at least 50% to break and run out then mathematically it should be fairly easy to see that streaks are rare. And certainly the statisticians among us could tell us how rare.

Another question that may have already been asked is should we count multiple break and runs as packs when they happen in alternate break formats? I say yes.
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At 50% chance of B&R, it's 1/2^N. So the odds of running 10 racks is 1 in 1024. 20 racks would be 1 in a million.
 
nine_ball6970 said:
The format has a lot to do with it. Hard to run a 10 pack in a race to 9. Even in a race to 11 ten racks is tough if you didn't even have the first break.

Kaci broke and ran a race to 8 vs Alex P a couple weeks ago playing 10 ball. Who knows what would have happened if it was a race to 15.

I think you would see them more often if pros played races to 21. Not to say they would do it often but it would probably happen.

I have seen Bergman run an 8 pack and then he broke dry in a race to 9.

Chang was down 17-15 vs Orcollo in a challenge match in Vegas in 2015. I believe Dennis broke dry. Chang ran out that one then broke and ran the next 5 to win the match.

It takes some luck to make a ball that many times in a row on the break and then have an open shot.
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I believe Kaci broke n ran a 6 pack against Alex not 8.
But i stand corrected if im wrong :)
One of the greatest runs i have seen is Dennis Orcollo lead Ko 14 to 3 or 4 in a race to 15.
Ko ran out the entire set to win 15-14
That was brutal !
 
BilliardsAbout said:
Jack White wrote about running 30 racks of 9-Ball (at an exhibition?). Likely at a college campus show on an eight-footer (?).

He had a simple break method, which I like very much, for 8- and 9-Ball. Powerful.
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Jack White played a guy for lots of marbles per game...and proceeded to run out 19 racks. The owner put up a plaque commemorating it and had Jack's Rambow cue in a plexiglass case above the plaque for years. This was in Sanford FL sometime in the 60's. Sadly many years later the bar burned down and the cue was lost in the fire.

Scott Lee
2019 PBIA Instructor of the Year
 
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